https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ 2026-06-10T22:35:13+00:00 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ https://www.cs.vassar.edu/_media/favicon.ico text/html 2016-05-20T15:47:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/tutorial/linux_tutorial_one?rev=1463759279&do=diff Linux Tutorial 1.1 Listing files and directories ls (list) When you first login, your current working directory is your home directory. Your home directory has the same name as your user-name, for example, compsci-user, and it is where your personal files and subdirectories are saved. text/html 2016-05-20T15:48:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/tutorial/linux_tutorial_four?rev=1463759331&do=diff Linux Tutorial Four 4.1 Wildcards The characters * and ? The character * is called a wildcard, and will match against none or more character(s) in a file (or directory) name. For example, in your unixstuff directory, type compsci-user@tim:~$ ls list* text/html 2016-05-20T15:49:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/tutorial/linux_tutorial_seven?rev=1463759351&do=diff Linux Tutorial Seven 7.1 Compiling Linux software packages We have many public domain and commercial software packages installed on our systems, which are available to all users. However, students are allowed to download and install small software packages in their own home directory, software usually only useful to them personally.